Search the SPREP Catalogue

Although the Galapagos islands were discovered by Spaniard in 1535 and were thereafter regarded as part of the Spanish viceroyalty of Peru the archipelago was during the following three hundred years visited mostly by English-speaking.

Palauan men praise women and state their pride, "Women are strong; men are weak". But men do the planning and make the decisions. This is no more strange to a Palauan than the fact that many children whose biological parents are still alive are adopted many times, and that material advantage should accure from these transactions to several kinsmen of the child.